15 September 2026 · 8 min read
How we cut cold-cache latency by a third
Prefetching the next two video segments sounded obvious. Doing it without wasting bandwidth was not.
performance
Engineering blog
10 March 2026 · 9 min read
Our approach to capacity planning
We plan for the launch day, not the average day. That changes the maths.
engineering
16 February 2026 · 10 min read
A year of on-call, in numbers
Pages per week, time to acknowledge, and the alerts we deleted.
culture
31 December 2025 · 6 min read
Small team, boring tools
Why most of our stack is older than our youngest engineer.
operations
05 December 2025 · 6 min read
Choosing points of presence on a budget
Latency maps, transit prices and the one spreadsheet that decided it.
operations
22 September 2025 · 7 min read
Why we stopped compressing everything
Some payloads got bigger, some CPUs got hotter. A short tour of the trade-offs.
storage operations
07 September 2025 · 13 min read
Range requests are harder than they look
Partial content, caching keys and the clients that ignore both.
culture operations